The most direct land route would take the pair straight through some of the region's most dangerous areas, including the Iraqi capital Baghdad, into war-torn Syria and straight through the embattled city of Aleppo to the Turkish border and on to Europe.
Many crossed the border, but a significant number opted to camp on the Syrian side of the border - preferring to remain on Syrian soil as long as possible.
About 160 Eritreans left Addis Ababa last Thursday by road, and crossed the border on Monday to arrive in the southern Eritrean town of Mendefera.
The present system, with cargo unloaded on one side of the border and reloaded on to different trucks on the other, is inefficient.
Advocates are also concerned that the bill requires certain goals on border security to be met before anyone can get a green card qualifying them for legal permanent residence and ultimately citizenship, and some say that the path to citizenship takes too long.
The secretary of state urged Lebanon to stop the activities of Hezbollah guerrillas on the border with Israel and he called on Syria to end its support for the Iranian-backed movement.
China has long-term plans for more extensions of the line, to Nyalam on the border with Nepal and to Dromo near Bhutan and the Indian state of Sikkim.
For most visitors it means a trip to Beijing, then to Yanji in China's Jilin province, by car to Tumen City on the border and then by car to Rajin.
It is financial protectionism, as banks are forced by their governments to focus on lending at home and to cut back on cross-border flows.
Did Israel really need the Americans on the border to make a deal with Syria?
It must provide for enhanced border security to build on the efforts we have made thus far.
And people said that they always thought that was something that people living on the border had to deal with.
Nick Viner of Boston Consulting Group expects transaction prices for domestic and cross-border payments to keep on falling by around 4% a year.
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Between the vocabulary of technology engineers and the MBA-speak of businesspeople, descriptions of computers tend to border on the Byzantine and deaden the senses.
We think that Robert Half is far from Undervalued, but after the selloff it starts to border on our neutral stance given current fundamentals.
The human propensity for denial is one thing, but given the severity of our recent near-death experience, this sort of behavior seems to border on the pathological.
The concept seems to border on science fiction.
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The Las Vegas Sun reports that people have been driving to a shop on Nevada's border with California to buy tickets.
Previous resolutions have failed to put pressure on Ethiopia to implement the border demarcation agreement.
The team was to have moved on from Abassiyeh to the village of Ghajar, on the border between Lebanon and the Golan Heights area, which Israel captured from Syria in 1967.
Social and Family Affairs Minister Mary Hanafin has said anyone who chose to shop north of the border should reflect on the damage they were doing to the economy.
We got up at 4 a.m. in Ethiopia's castle town of Gondar to fight for good seats on the bus to the border.
Geraldo Quintao, the defence minister, is pushing for funds to build two new barracks, one on the Colombian border and another close to where Brazil adjoins Venezuela and Guyana.
However, because the US took no action to lift the controls on cross-border gambling Antigua filed an application to recoup its lost cash by other means.
Most notably, France refuses to scrap checks on its northern border with Belgium and Luxembourg: it objects to soft drugs' free availability in the Netherlands.
It does allow border staff to forgo checks on EEA passengers against the Warnings Index.
The bodies had been transported from Chechnya over the border to Azerbaijan late on Monday night.
Last summer, we ordered the UK Border Agency to clamp down on these and they've had significant success, making 155 arrests.
Though a peace process was launched in 2004, the two countries are still believed to conduct intelligence missions across the border and to make arrests on either side.
Germans, for instance, have long made it a hobby to drive suitcases of cash over their border to Luxembourg, where banks may not pass on information to foreign tax authorities.
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